skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone always complains about the "blue curtains". Did everyone but be ready the same book, or are you just repeating a meme? (for what purpose?)

But I do analyze literature and study mathematical formulas in my free time, so maybe I'm built different.

It's hard to say what school is doing in wrong when students aren't interested in study. Maybe the answer is to let the mom studious students leave school.
> when all their work is visible to you

Doesn't really happen reliably in the real world.

> You have bigger problems if you can't tell if someone is lying or not ...

Whether or not I have bigger problems is independent from whether I need to recruit more developers.
Is Bluesky still relevant? They failed to capitalise on a moment, and it's hard to see another opportunity for them in the future.
Damn, that sounds like an ideal place to live for me. I live in an apartment but also play music. I would love to be able to set up a drum kit (and maybe store an e-bike) and still be in my walkable area for cheap ish rent.
Yep, LBAs are the primary addressing scheme in the NVMe spec, written into every single IO command. I would imagine there could be a better way, but NVMe & OS support still carries some baggage from SATA HDDs -> SATA SSDs -> NVMe SSDs.

As you mentioned, over-provisioning and other NAND flash memory health management techniques like garbage collection and wear leveling are needed for usable modern SSDs. Modern SSD controllers are complex beasts having 3-7 microprocessor cores (probably double digit core counts now with PCIe 5.0), encryption engines, power & thermal management, error correction, multiple hardware PHYs, etc.

Example product sheet: https://www.marvell.com/content/dam/marvell/en/public-collat...
Is there a country where this has happened?
The average HN based-boy apple user has almost negative arm strength. You're asking them to start with pull ups? They need to be able to do a real push-up first!
A Brief History of Embodied Artificial Intelligence, and Its Future Outlook
Yeah. My friend has one that cost around 3 grand.

The main issue that I would have, is maintenance. I would guess that it would need a fair bit of cleaning.

I just use a fairly basic Braun Melitta filter, and it does great.
Reflecting on Research Practices
*good exclusive IP.
DESQview was pivotal for running multi-line BBSes.
In the end the murder rate cannot be fudged, and it is quite favorable.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/cities-wi...
It’s not generally the responsibility of the person doing the technical screen to also obtain signal on past experience. At a company with recruiting process these fall on different people specialized in the specific interview types. I’ve done an average of 2-3 interviews a week over several employers for the last 12 years, so over a thousand interviews. I’ve also defined much tech interview loop for my current employer and usually interview from junior IC up to manager of manager roles.

I’ve never asked for candidate resumes because I don’t want to bias myself.

I’m not saying it will always, always happen, it’s just, it overwhelmingly will.
> All he had to do to win was use a different stick shaped object for the test.

His WEEEENNUS?????
No, no, no, yes.
https://danluu.com/keyboard-v-mouse/ - "Unlike claims by either keyboard or mouse advocates, when I do experiments myself, the results are mixed. Some tasks are substantially faster if I use the keyboard and some are substantially faster if I use the mouse. Moreover, most of the results are easily predictable (when the results are similar, the prediction is that it would be hard to predict)."
..my friend, what world do you live in where civilians are gathering their own evidence, of any kind, much less evidence related to police behaviors?
I think it's an attempt to alleviate burn in and flicker (at least during the warranty period;))
Expandability is no longer an option with Apple Silicon.
Whereas I appreciated the unexpected spice, only to quickly be reminded by your comment that, yes, this is HackerNews.
I'm currently going through these leetcode-style interviews and it's demoralizing studying for quizzes I know I'll never use on the job. I think knowing this makes it harder to motivate myself to study, which in turn means I fail more interviews. I think I'm just trying to get lucky at this point.

I know I can write code. I know I can work with the cloud. I know I can talk to stakeholders and gather requirements. But yet I am treated like a new grad in the interview process.
That's quite the cartwheel in front of the horse!

I suggest removing the competitive grading system, and adding more hours to the school day, not removing the educational opportunity.
I strongly suggest putting in the time to learn how to install and maintain a linux laptop ... Ubuntu 24.04 is a great engineer platform
> In the past year, Bluesky has grown from 40K users to 5.6M users.

It it were still relevant, they would have quoted DAU.
A Giant Impact Origin for the First Subduction on Earth
It's the only social network I'm really on right now. And AT protocol is pretty neat. I'm glad it's around and will keep using it until something else better comes along.
Well this is just cool as can be!
ncdu is the next step when you've got as far as you can with `du -h | sort -n`
Garbage trucks average 130 miles a day and are not used at night.Thus an EV should be adequate--so I don't see the value of a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle.
> Historically, all bluesky posts have been public. But there’s a world of interactions that are opened up when users can directly message each other.

Really? Who wold have thought of that? Tell me more about it, please.
Probably has a stick collection.
Behavior in high dimensions is even weirder than you might think, because you're nearly always close to a saddle point. There's way more saddle points than minima or maxima (consider modeling the sign of eigenvalues for the Jacobian as a binomial distribution -- how likely is it they're all positive or all negative?).

However usually only a relatively small subset of dimensions are important (read: represent a stable optimum), see the 'lottery ticket' hypothesis for more.

What's also weird is that "convergence" in these cases isn't really convergence, it's just slowly floating between saddle points as you begin to overfit. Hence early stopping.

> Gradient descent in high dimensions also seems to have the ability to "step over" areas of high loss

This has much less to do with gradients per se and way more to do with step size. It's an artifact of discretization, not of the algorithm per se.
My boy can smell the BS ten miles away.
> wired [...] withdrawals [..] I’d love to hear how other people manage their caffeine intake (even if it is complete dependence).

Or the polar opposite: I sometimes wonder if I have a caffeine insensitivity, and whether there's a good way to objectively measure my experience versus the average.

The suspicion comes from how some folks (like in this blog) will talk about how they very clearly perceive being "wired" or having withdrawal symptoms, while I don't think I've ever noticed such clear causation. That includes occasions like switching for a week from/to non-caffeinated sodas. (Diet in both cases for calorie reasons, which conveniently removes sugar rush/crash as a confounding factor.)

It makes for an odd kind of micro-alienation among a workforce where people talk about their needs/habits around caffeine, especially when working near Seattle.
Not the one you asked the question to but I'd say some examples would be:

Robotics (either to automate household drudgery or to eliminate terrible jobs nobody wants to do)

Space colonization

Terraforming (to reverse climate change which imo we are not going to solve via the austerity nonsense politicians and green activists keep pushing)

Detecting and countering AI generated spam (if this is not solved, AI could easily make "Dead Internet Theory" a reality)

Solving problems created by companies seeking profitability over the good of society. For example, dating which has been FUBARed by dating apps seeking to maximize active users. Problem here is there's no profit in it if you do it the right way for society.

Fast, safe, reliable mass transit in the US (i.e. disrupt Greyhound and/or build high speed rail more competently than California's mismanaged disaster)

Addressing homelessness, mental health and drug addiction.

Many of these would probably be best funded by a government staffed by the best and the brightest like we had between the 1930s and 1960s (think Manhattan Project, Marshall Plan and Apollo Program) not the crooks and incompetent buffoons that seemingly staff the government nowadays. But some of these could be companies or non-profits.

I'd personally love to start a company in one of these spaces (or something similar) but don't have runway so I'd either need it funded or a co-founder who's wealthy enough to also fund my living expenses until it is funded.
You're probably right. I am in the middle-class, maybe lower middle-class, and I live in the US. I have advantages and opportunities that many in other circumstances do not and I am sincerely grateful for them.
An example with different fine-tuned models (especially smaller/cheaper ones) would probably be more interesting than running against a bunch of similar foundation models. For example throwing in some code-generation models and demonstrating that it picks those for coding problems.
Thats a whole lot of text to try to ferret out what "really interesting one" you're talking about.
honestly no, but it’s not just them. no “social network” is relevant on its own anymore. big content is cross posted everywhere. features are copied. differentiation between them is mostly lost

user bases will remain separate as not everyone reads every network. but a new app on its own isnt that compelling. even ones that specialize in a niche like be real will have trouble finding large scale relevancy
It's relevant to all the people that use it. Frankly the fact that it hasn't been overrun with DAUs is one of the benefits.
1) macs are by far the best hardware and also performance running intel code is faster than running intel code on the previous intel macs: https://discourse.slicer.org/t/hardware-is-apple-m1-much-fas...
2) they should use safari to keep power usage low and browser diversity high
One new thing on the table is that AI (github copilot, openai) seems to perform way better on non-statically-typed languages. Anecdotally, the suggestions are way better in ruby than go.

I could guess why, but I'll let others speculate.
If you have ACE, what’s the difference between fixing the kill screen bug and `score = SCORE_MAX`?
Damn right it is.
I once helped run a website you probably never heard of and it had more than 5.6M registered users. :shruggydude:
Google will exit prominent S.F. waterfront office tower
It's basically required for iOS development. Working around it is extremely convoluted any annoying
Huh. Most of the folks I know on Apple stuff started out PC (and sometimes Android—I did) and maybe even made fun of Apple devices for a while, but switched after exposure to them because they turned out to be far, far better tools. And not even much more expensive, if at all, for TCO, given the longevity and resale value.
All of these bands have agreed to allow people to tape and distribute their concerts for free. This is most popular in the jam band community, but you’ll find a plethora of other bands that allow it as well.
Slavish recreations of already-successful manga at least have the benefit that there's a lot of manga. So as a viewer, you get variety regardless.
Ah, this makes sense. Thanks for clarifying!
Saudi Arabia Discovers It's Hard to Build a 105-Mile Skyscraper
I use threads
https://archive.ph/xSAY1

> Tech behemoth Google will be exiting the 300,000-square-foot office that it has occupied at One Market Plaza since 2018, once the company’s lease for the space expires next April, a spokesperson for Google confirmed Tuesday. The move follows Visa’s exit from the three-building complex, as the company relocated its employees to Mission Rock.

> Many of Google’s employees are already working outside of the giant waterfront office, in light of the company’s flexible approach to office attendance.

> “As we’ve said before, we’re focused on investing in real estate efficiently to meet the current and future needs of our hybrid workforce,” Lamont said in an email to the Chronicle. “We remain committed to our long-term presence in San Francisco.”

Sounds like hybrid is here to stay due to employee demand.
Why not an Android with termux? I guess it would depend upon your software stack, but my editor (Emacs) will have native Android port soon and I am stoked to try it. The latest Snapdragon processors are fairly powerful (and Mediatek/Dimensity ones aren't lagging behind either).
Yes, I also find that physicists don't make the best auto mechanics. Mechanics never need to derive the equations of astronomical motion when repairing an engine block.

Why do you believe that Computer Science is less "critical thinking about abstract concepts and how to articulate ideas" than Journalism?
Seems to me like it's not. I rarely hear about it, I've never seen anyone link to a Bluesky post, and it has weird limitations due to it being on top of a new federated protocol (which I still don't understand the purpose of when the internet's already kinda settled on Mastodon/ActivityPub as the go-to for decentralized social media).

Even as they talk now about addressing the stuff that's missing from Bluesky like DMs and videos (which, no wonder it hasn't taken off when those features are absent), it still sounds like even when those features launch, they'll still be subpar. DMs not part of the AT protocol? Did they just not think of DMs when they designed the protocol? And only 90 second videos? Really? In my opinion, Bluesky isn't going to take off if this is the roadmap.
No, I'm fine with landlords until they capture regulators and legislators and turn economic competition into stagnation for profit.
Alas that Web Components will be forever held back from their true potential until WebKit pulls their obstinate finger out and implements the customised built-ins half of the standard. Or proposes something better that otherwise solves the content model issues. To date they have done neither, leaving us with a shortfall of composability and a fistful of janky polyfills
how do you wait for a socket if the event loop doesn't support waiting for sockets?
Want to back that up with some data? NYC is half the per capita murder rate of the US. What swath of places do you think are safer such that "one of the safest places" for NYC is inaccurate? On >250k population list, NYC is #20/100 safest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

On a 100k to 250k list, NYC is above average safety.
If it was actually bad value they wouldn't sell as high as they do and review with as much consumer satisfaction as they do.

These products may not offer you much value and you don't have to buy them. Clearly plenty of people and institutions bought them because they believed they offered the best value to them.
from my limited experience, it's a better choice than mstdn or nostr.

mstdn's weakness is the activitypub protocol, it has many limitations, but understandably because it's designed in good o' GNU Social days. On the other hand nostr had like gazillion of NIPs

ATProto fits the right spot, designed by the people who knows what they are doing, and addresses all the problems.
You can see the latest stats here: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Around 200,000 folks liked a post today.
Please don't be snarky in HN comments. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Disappointed that the components were not included in the article. I want to say they used McIntosh hifi amps that were 300 watts per channel. I’m not completely sure however.
I wish I knew this. I think we may still have some of the previous broken ones so I will have to try this route.
Problem is yes it does run but it's probably paging to disk more than you think. I wonder if that lowers both performance and battery life.
Me. Use it to read pdfs, draw, watch youtube and netflix, or as my laptop when I’m traveling. Best purchase I made.
They're average. A 512GB M3 MBA gets like 3000MBps for read/write. A 1TB Samsung 990 Pro, which costs less than the upgrade from 256GB to 512GB on the Air is over twice as fast. And on base models Apple skimps and speeds are slower.
I think you're misinterpreting how for-of works. For-of will iterate over deleted keys in the exact same way that it iterates over keys that never existed.

let a = [];
a[7] = 7;
for (let v of a) console.log(v);
> undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, 7
Since the hardware already exists and has been benchmarked privately, this is less of a bet and more of an information asymmetry. So let's assume you would win :) Next question is why - is it a limitation of the SoC, power regulators, motherboard design, OS integration, Arm licensing, Apple patents, ..?
Quit your job.

It's not reasonable to do a cognitively demanding job all day and then expect to do cognitively demanding leisure at night. Unemployed people are great readers.
You're going to need to elaborate beyond "let's say". What you wrote is basically just a conspiracy theory. In fact crime statistics reporting is an extremely mature field with well-understood methods and comparable data, and nothing one particular administration can do it really going to impact things very much. Basically, if this was such a great trick for Adams to have invented, why didn't it occur to Bloomberg or Giuliani or Koch?

In fact NYC is a very safe city. That it's inconvenient for you to believe that doesn't change the facts.
> And flossing has ... not been shown to improve anything at all really.

Blows my mind every time I this kind of nonsense. "Never been shown"? It has been shown to me. If in slack my flossing enough soon enough bits of food get stuck in between the teeth and gun and start rotting. When youve had breath smelling like rotten food you start being more meticulous with your flossing. I have to presume that you have awful breath and are unaware.
I think the problem is developing the algorithms. At least that's what I got from the article. Its still very hacky.
Us revokes Intel, Qualcomm licenses to sell chips to Huawei
Mind the difference between GB and Gb.
I think so. Sure, platforms like Threads have the raw numbers and network effects, but Bluesky has an authentic community, a solid team (Dan Abramov from the React team joining was a surprise), and they are making the right product tradeoffs. I can definitely see them “coming out on top” as the spiritual successor to Twitter in a few years.
anything that replaces powerpoint?
Peru Port Dispute Escalates as Cosco Insists on Original Terms
Well given Elon's continuing shenanigans at Twitter that moment is probably still ongoing, and the competition is still wide open.

I do think Bluesky may have chose the wrong launch strategy by using the old and tired invite-only method. But hard to say for sure. If they had fully opened to the public last year or the year before, they might have gotten a large influx of users, who would then complain that it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Twitter, which had 10+ years to develop them. So who knows. At least with invites, they made sure to get people who really wanted to be there, even if it was a smaller crowd.
Gemini nano is 1.8B 4 bit parameters, so a little under a GB. And hopefully each app won’t include a full copy of their models.
If that were the case why do they bother with an iPad, iPad Air, iPad Pro, iPhone SE, iPhone, iPhone Pro, iPhone Pro Max, ... each with their own number of colors and storage variations.

But no 16GB without more SSD? lol?
> But I also think that when you hire in other industries, you can get much more milage from looking at the candidate's formal degrees and certifications.

> In our industry, you kinda have to start from scratch with every person.

Not really - in software people leave a bigger and more easily trackable track record than any other engineering field. From previous work projects/experience to open source projects/experience, from personal projects to the communities a person belongs to. A lot of stuff is directly visible on the Internet. In other engineering fields, you have to trust what the applicant says in his or her resume and maybe at most you can call the previous companies he worked at for reference. In software, a lot of the trail is online or easy to tell, and you can still call.

Even for totally new graduates, it is better in software: Its much easier for a software undergrad to work part-time or in a hobby project or contribute to open source and produce something before he or she graduates, so that you can assess his skills. Its much harder for a mechanical or civil engineer to do that, so for that reason you have to rely solely on the relevant university/college and the grades of the candidate.
A Microsoft employee recently (~6 months) opened a Github issue to discuss a command line editor for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440

> "Thank you so much to everyone for engaging with this feature exploration! Your passion has generated a ton of excitement in our own team, and I’m happy to share our proposed direction, which is that we will work with Malcolm Smith (malxau), the maintainer of Yedit, to ship Edit in Windows! We plan to do this by forking the Yedit code to a new OSS repo on GitHub, under Microsoft (like terminal or powertoys)."

YEdit being an MIT licensed open-source recreation of the MS-DOS 5 editor, by a Microsoft employee: http://www.malsmith.net/edit/
Here's a project that describes the use of llm to generate crawling rules and then capture them, but it looks like it's still in the early stages of research.

https://github.com/EZ-hwh/AutoCrawler
From one of the dead's main sound engineers, Dan Healy, who helped establish this technology (I wasn't able to find any further discussions, but I know I've read a few interviews where he talked about doing this at the soundboard).

"""What tools do modern sound engineers have at their disposal that you didn’t?
Computers and all the things that became possible at the advent of computers. It’s removed the limitations to creativity. Nowadays, in terms of concert sound, you can not only correct the sound for any room, you can ongoingly correct it in real time as the room changes and as the temperature changes and as the humidity changes. We used to do that in the ’80s and ’90s – I had a complete weather station at my mix board and we tracked temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, because they change sound dispersion, sound quality. We corrected the systems accordingly. We did long, long studies and mapped it out, and we had curves so we could predict where the sound was going. We had to do that by hand. Nowadays, it happens all by itself."""
In my experience as a backend services Go developer (and a bit of Scala) the switch to arm has been mostly seamless. There was a little config at the beginning to pull dual-image docker images (x64 and arm) but that was a one time configuration. Otherwise I'm still targeting Linux/x64 with Go builds and Scala runs on the JVM so it's supported everywhere anyway; they both worked out of the box.

My builds are faster, laptop stays cooler, and battery lasts longer. I love it.

If I was building desktop apps I assume it would be a less pleasant experience like you mention.
I have my email client configured to display messages as plain text. A large fraction of emails that I receive have a text part that is empty or has some placeholder text. Also, senders often generate the text version by taking the HTML version and just stripping all tags, which means that all links are removed. I wish I could configure my client to ignore the text part completely, and instead to convert the HTML part to plain text, which is what it is doing already if there is no text part.